1. Clothing Historically, men of the Wa ethnic group wore black shorts and wide-mouthed trousers.

Women wear turbans and short skirts with horizontal stripes. Their accessories include collars, necklaces, bracelets, waist hoops and ankle hoops. Most of them are made of silver or bamboo and rattan, or are painted with natural colors, or depend on the natural color.

It is almost universally loved by men, women, old and young.

With the development of society, the clothing of the Wa people has also begun to change, with long skirts, tube skirts and some more contemporary clothing and decorations appearing. However, the areas where the Wa people live still maintain traditional ethnic characteristics, and most of the clothes are

The raw materials are self-grown cotton and linen, which are processed according to the traditional method. The woven patterns are like peacock, white pheasant and other feathers, and some are like civet, dace and carp fur patterns.

2. Most of the villages inhabited by the Wa people are built on the mountainside or on the top of hills.

Some villages in the Ximeng area have a history of hundreds of years, and they are gathered into large villages with hundreds of households.

The Wa people like to live in bamboo houses, and some of them live in adobe bungalows. This is a new form of housing that was later changed.

The bamboo building can be divided into two floors, the upper floor is for people and the lower floor is for livestock.

The furnishings in the room are simple and bright. Indispensable are a fire pit for human use and a fire pit for sacrifices or a fire pit for heating sacrifices and livestock feed.

3. Food: The Wa people mostly use bamboo tubes to cook rice. When eating, the housewives share the food according to the number of people and finish the food evenly at one time.

He likes to chew betel nuts and drink alcohol. There is a saying that "without alcohol, there is no etiquette, and words do not count".

Water wine is made from fermented red rice. It is usually placed in a large bamboo tube and inserted into a thin bamboo tube for sucking.

The Wa people also have the custom of drinking strong tea, and eating chili is a common hobby of men, women, and children.

4. Marriage The Wa family is a monogamous small family. Most property is inherited by the youngest son, and daughters have no inheritance rights.

The Wa people use the inverse father-son naming system to trace their ancestors back to themselves.

The names of the earliest generation of all Wa families are called "Sigang", which means gourd or stone cave, which is a symbol of worship of maternal power.

Men and women can interact freely before marriage, which is called "string girls". Young men and women gather in groups, sing love songs to each other, and give betel nuts and tobacco to express their love.

However, the decision to conclude a marriage is made by the parents, and the man has to pay a bride price of several cows, which is called "nanny's money" and "girl money".

Sometimes one parent does not agree, and both parties run away from the marriage, without the parents pursuing the matter.

In the past, cousin marriage was popular among the Wa people, but this has changed significantly.

5. Funerals The Wa people practice thin burials, and each village has its own cemetery.

In some areas, the custom of burying the deceased under or near the bamboo tower is retained.

Extended information: Overview of the Wa ethnic group: 1. The Wa ethnic group is one of the ethnic minorities in China and Myanmar. Its national language is the Wa language, which belongs to the Wa German branch of the Mon-Khmer family of the Austro-Asian language family. There is no universal written language. People use physical objects and woodcuts to record, count or pass things on.

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2. The Wa people mainly live in Cangyuan, Ximeng, Menglian, Gengma, Lancang, Shuangjiang, Zhenkang, Yongde and other counties in southwestern Yunnan Province, China, and Wa and Shan States in Myanmar, within China.

There are also some Wa people scattered in Baoshan City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Kunming City and Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture.

3. The origin of the Wa nationality, the myth and legend of "Sigangli" is widely spread.

According to the explanation of the Wa people in Cangyuan, "Sigang" means "gourd", and "li" means "coming out", which means people who come out of the gourd; according to the explanation of the Wa people in Ximeng, "Sigang" means "stone cave",

"Li" means "come out", which means "people come out of the cave".

4. The religious beliefs of the Wa people include primitive religion, Buddhism and Christianity.

5. According to statistics from the Sixth National Census in 2010, the total population of the Wa ethnic group in China is 429,709.